ÎÞÂëרÇø

Dates indicate approximately when the news item was posted on the ÎÞÂëרÇø website.

2009

— The Val and Frank Late Fountain, madeÌý possible by a gift from Valeria Late of Dallas,Ìýwas dedicatedÌýon March 5 on the ÎÞÂëרÇø campus. (3/5/2009)

2008

— The Noel family of Houston endows the deanship of Dedman School of Law, currently held by John B. Attanasio. (12/5/2008)

— ÎÞÂëרÇø is naming its School of Engineering in honor of Bobby B. Lyle, a Dallas entrepreneur and industry leader. (10/17/2008)

— ÎÞÂëרÇø launches the largest fund-raising campaign in its history to dramatically increase academic quality and impact. (9/12/2008)

— A $4 million gift to ÎÞÂëרÇø from former Texas Governor William P. Clements, Jr. (ÎÞÂëרÇø '39) and his wife, Rita, will support improvements in facilities at ÎÞÂëרÇø-in-Taos, the University's campus in northern New Mexico. Other donors have provided more than $900,000 in additional gifts. (7/7/2008)

— A $1 million gift from John C. and Debbie Tolleson of DallasÌý will provide additional support for the Edwin L. Cox BBA Scholars Program in ÎÞÂëרÇø's Cox School of Business. (04/28/08)

— A gift of more than $10 million from the Honorable Roy M. Huffington of Houston is a boost to ÎÞÂëרÇø's Department of Earth Sciences, which is being renamed in his honor. (03/27/08)

— The Perkins School of Theology at ÎÞÂëרÇø has received a $1 million gift from Barbara Cook Wendland and Erroll Wendland to establish the Wendland-Cook Professorship in Constructive Theology. (03/14/08)

— Delores M. Etter, a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will be the director of ÎÞÂëרÇø's new Caruth Institute for Engineering Education and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Engineering Education. (03/10/08)

— D. Scott Luttrell (BBA '77) and David B. Miller (BBA '72 and MBA '73) have helped Cox create an undergraduate curriculum in alternative asset management. (03/03/08)

— A $3.6 million gift to ÎÞÂëרÇø from Caren ProthroÌý and the Perkins-Prothro Foundation will establish the C. Vin Prothro Biological Sciences Initiative at ÎÞÂëרÇø. (01/14/07)

2007

— Catherine Perrine, wife of the late ÎÞÂëרÇø English professor and textbook author Laurence Perrine, bequeaths $3.3 million to the University to fund scholarships and endow a faculty chair in the English Department. (11/19/07)

— A landmark $20 million gift from Harold C. and Annette C. Simmons will provide endowment for ÎÞÂëרÇø’s School of Education and Human Development and the lead gift for a new building to house the School.(11/09/07)

— Dallas oilman Edwin L. Cox has given $5 million to support merit-based undergraduate scholarships at the school that bears his name – ÎÞÂëרÇø's Edwin L. Cox School of Business. (10/19/07)

— The gift from the W.W. Caruth Foundation at Communities Foundation of Texas is designed to spark K-12 students’ interest in science and engineering presents the opportunity to inspire and shape our nation’s innovators long before they submit their first college application. (10/11/07)

— A new $250,000 research endowment fund honoring ÎÞÂëרÇø Anthropology Professor Robert Van Kemper has been established through a bequest from his late mentor and teacher George M. Foster Jr. at the University of California at Berkeley. (08/17/07)

(02/13/07)

— A gift of $6 million to ÎÞÂëרÇø from the Perkins-Prothro family of Wichita Falls will launch a building program for Perkins School of Theology. (01/19/07)

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2005

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2002

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2001

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